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1884, 43, 412.— Murray, Vertebr. Fauna Sind, 1884, 225.— Sharpk, ed. 

 Layard's Birds South Africa, 1884, 657; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 191, 

 737.— Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, 41 (Corsica).— Dixon, Ibis, 1885, 85 (St. 

 Kilda).— Reid, Ibis, 1885, 252 (Morocco).— Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, 20 (Aden, 

 occasional). — Buckley and IIarvik-Brown, Vertebr. Faun. Outer Hebrides, 

 1888, 141 (resident); Vertebr. Fauna Orkney Is., 1891, 201 (resident); Vertebr. 

 Fauna Argyll and Inner Hebrides, 1892, 163.— Barnes, Ibis, 1893, 169, 181 

 (Aden). — Blagg, Ibis, 1893, 355 (Shetland Islands; breeding habitn). — Pear- 

 son and Bidwell, Ibis, 1894, 233 (Norway, breeding). — PoYNXiNG, Eggs 

 Brit. Birds, pt. i, 1895, 39, pi. 10.— Pear.son, Ibis, 1896, 211 (Eurasian Lap- 

 land); 1898, 198 (Dolga Bay, Waigats, and Cape Greben, n. e. Russia). — 

 PoPHAM, Ibis, 1897, 102 (Yenesei River, Siberia; descr. eggs); 1898, 572 

 (Yenesei River). — Grant, Novit. Zool., vii, 1900, 268 (s. Arabia): — Jes.se, 

 Ibis, 1903, 162 (Lucknow, India). 



Ch[ara(lrius] pluviulis Keyserling and Bla.^ius, Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. Ixx, 208. 



C[haradrius] pluvialis Holboll, Naturhist. Tidsskr., iv, 1843, 406 (Greenland). — 

 Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884. 600. 



Charadrius aureus MtiLLER, Syst. Nat., Suppl., 1776, 118 (ex Brisson, Orn., v, 

 1760, 43). 



Pluvialis aurea Schaeffer, Mus. Orn., 1789, 48. — Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., 

 ii, 1842, 49; Hist. Brit. Birds, iv, 1852, 94. 



Charadrius auratus Suckow, Naturg. der.Thiere, ii, 1801, 1592 (based on C. aprica- 

 rius Linnaeus, etc.). — Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb., ii, 1810, 318. — Brehm, 

 Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 542.— Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., vii, 1834, 138, pi. 

 173.— Schlegel, Vog. Nederl., 1854, pi. 211.— Clarke (W. E.), Zoologist, 

 1890 (Jan Mayen Land). 



Charadrius allifrons Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 542 (Faroe Islands; Greenland; 

 Germany) . 



PLUVIALIS DOMINICUS DOMINICUS (Miiller). 



AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER. 



Similar to P. apricarius, but smaller (except bill and feet) and with 

 axillai's and under wing-coverts brownish gray or gi'ayish brown 

 instead of white. 



Adults in breeding plumage (sexes alike). — Upper parts brownish 

 black, thickly marked with small roundish and irregular spots of 

 golden yellow, interspereed with fewer similar markings of grayish 

 wliite, the upper tail-coverts barred rather than spotted with yellow; 

 tail dusky, irregularly barred with grayish-white or pale gray and 

 yellowish; alula, primary coverts and primaries dusky or blackish, 

 the last with shafts wjiite in middle portion, the white sometimes 

 extending to adjacent portion of the webs, especially on proximal 

 quills; sides of head, including entire loral and auricular regions, 

 cliin, thi'oat, chest, breast, and abdomen uniform black, with a faint 

 bronzy gloss in certain lights; forehead, superciliary region, sides of 

 neck and chest, under tail-coverts, and thighs wliite; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts brownish gray; bill black; iris dark brown; legs 

 and feet gravish black. 



